"I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record."
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"Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you"
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"Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre."
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"I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know."
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"You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass."
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"The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon."
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"Australian cattle dogs, are not like Labradors, where they just like to just sit around by the fire and get petted. They're working dogs, so they have a lot of energy, and they can drive you crazy."
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"Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world. Some people never have them at all... I get them two or three times a week."
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"There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b) begin to daydream about huge black helicopters first opening fire upon, then dropping buckets of flaming napalm onto the offices of the Grahame Coats agency. Fat Charlie would not be in the office in those daydreams. He would be sitting in a chair outside a little cafe on the other side of Aldwych, sipping a frothy coffee and occasionally cheering at an exceptionally well-flung bucket of napalm."
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"The fiercest fire is hatred."
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"For morning news, people want to know as they are getting dressed, as they are getting ready to leave [for work], "what has happened in the world overnight?" Morning news is a sure-fire way to find out what that is. I personally love and celebrate the fact that you can go to bed and the world is one way and you wake up and it's totally different."
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"My hair is made of actual fire, you guys."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations."
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"Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly."
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"Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity."
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"A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire."
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"Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes."
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"That from small fires comes oft no small mishap."
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"All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost."
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